3 LEMUR THE THIRD KARMIEL GALILEE, ISRAEL (ALMIRA, 14 years old)
- Almira, it’s time.
Composure is the only visible thing on the wrinkled face of an old man who, below himself, on the branches of his luxuriant family tree, has seventeen children and more than fifty grandchildren. She is one of them. Six months before the action, girls spend most of their time with their spiritual elders and they are completely isolated from their family during the last four days. It’s a rule, but in this case Almira’s spiritual elder is her relative as well.
Today she feels it her duty to be composed. To be happy and alive at last, because she is already in heaven.
Two women take her to a special room, separated from the spacious cellar hall by white curtains. A few spasms unsettle her stomach and then
